Error-Generator-Level Compression for Fast Quantum Gates

Abstract

Fast quantum gates in multilevel systems require suppressing many coherent-error channels using pulses that remain simple to implement. We introduce error-generator-level compression, a Magnus-based control principle that minimizes the complete projected error generator at a chosen perturbative order while restricting the implemented waveform to a few independently adjustable coefficients. This construction preserves all modeled computational and leakage errors rather than truncating the pulse by error channel, while its generator-level objective directly penalizes residual eigenphases that can signal departure from the perturbative regime. For fast transmon gates, a three-parameter pulse suppresses errors by orders of magnitude, outperforms grid-optimized leading- order DRAG over the gate-time range studied, and approaches a fully parameterized 17-parameter Magnus correction. The compressed pulse is also substantially less sensitive to the illustrative finite-bandwidth filtering model considered here.